Means for mounting photographs and similar devices on sheets or pages



April 1947- c. M.MURRAY 2,418,421

MEANS FOR MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS AND SIMILAR DEVICES ON SHEETS QR PAGESFiled April' 28, 1944 J76?! f/Ez gm i675 4 l 4% 44 Z 45 5* Z 6 I l 5 7666 70 72 74 25 Q, 1516,14

i736 i732 i514? Patented Apr. 1, 1947 MEANS FOR MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS ANDSIMILAR DEVICES ON SHEETS OR PAGES Corinne M. Murray, Pensacola, Fla.

Application April 28, 1944, Serial No. 533,114

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a device for mounting photographs, postcards,or similar articles on to provide a sheet-like form of generallyrectangular shape and preferably provided at one end with a flapproviding a straight-edge along which the flap is bent and whichstraight-edge is adapted to be used as a marginal guide line by whichthe sheet may he slid along one edge of the paper, the sheet beingprovided on the obverse face with a series of spaced apart parallellines which lines extend in parallel relation to both edges of the pageor sheet upon which the articles are to be mounted by the cornermountings, and which parallel lines are generally arranged in the formof a cross at the central portion of the obverse face of the sheet andwherein the sheet is provided on its reverse face at the upper portionthereof with a series of parallel lines disposed in spaced relation andoccupying substantially the upper half of the sheet, the lower half ofthe sheet being arranged substantially in the form of a square andhaving a dotted line extending diagonall from corner to corner of thesquare, which line is adapted to be perforated or slit, and one half ofwhich square wholly on one side of the diagonal line is provided withspaced apart horizontal and vertical lines extending at right angles toeach other and joining the junctions thereof, being arranged on a lineextending at right angles to the dotted line, by which arrangement,irrespective of whether the guide sheet is used with its obverse face orits reverse face presented outermost, various of the lines may beutilized as guide lines for the sheet or page whereby photographs,postcards and the like may be symmetrically and precisely mounted atdesired locations on the page with the peripheral lines of thephotographs or cards extending in parallel relation to the correspondingedge portions of the page or sheet and whereby when so located thecorner mountings may be then adhered to the .face of the page or sheetat the corner of the so-positioned photograph or card for permanently ordetachably mounting the same onto the page or sheet.

Yet another object of the invention resides in providing an envelope ofgenerally rectangular form adapted to contain a number of cornermountings, which envelope itself is provided at one end, and preferablyits shorter end, with a foldable flap for sealing the envelope and whichflap also may be utilized as a foldable guide to overlie one of theedges of the page or sheet and slid therealong into various positionswith respect to the center line of the page or sheet, and which envelopecontains on its obverse and reverse faces uniformally spaced, preciselydisposed parallel guide lines adapted to be used as reference lines forplacing the card or photograph with its marginal edge in parallelismwith a selected uide line, and wherein these guide lines on theirobverse and reverse faces are so arranged that one or the other of thefaces may be used, depending upon which part of the page it is desiredto mount the card or photograph on the page of the album or sheet.

Yet another object of the invention comprises an envelope adapted toform a container for mounting corners of standard construction, saidenvelope having a flap at one end, the foldable line of which isarranged to permit the envelope to be slid along the mounting page orsheet to various positions with respect thereto, one of the faces of theenvelope being providedwith a symmetrically disposed, preferably squarezone, having a diagonally disposed dotted line to provide a prearrangedslit when out along the line and associated guide lines having rightangularly disposed portions disposed in uniforma-lly spaced relationwhereby the corner of a photograph or other card to be mounted may beinserted in such ,slit of the envelope and the adjacent right angularlydisposed sides of the card or photograph line up with a selected pair ofangularly disposed lines whereby the card may be arranged inpredetermined exact relation on the page with reference to the page, orwhereby the mounting page at a corner thereof may be inserted in theslit so that the right angularly disposed lines associate with the slitor form guide lines disposed in uniformly spaced relation, parallel notonly to one edge of the page but likewise parallel to the adjacent edgeof the page at the corner thereof and which angularly disposed guidelines may be used as guide reference lines with respect to which acorner of the photograph may be registered, whereby precisely to placethe photograph on the page at a preselected location with its edge linesparallel with the edge lines of the page and whereby the cornermountings may then be used permanently to mount the photograph in saidselected position; to provide these and other objects of the inventionas will be apparent upon a perusal of the following specification whentaken in connection with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of one side of a guiding device, preferably in the form of anenvelope adapted to contain a, number of mounting corners.

Figure 2 is a view of the reverse side of the device shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view of the obverse face of the device shown in Figure lwith the flap folded down.

Figure 4 is a view showing a more or less standard type of cornermounting.

Figure 5 is a view showing the manner in which the dotted line is slitto provide an opening for the reception of the corner of the page.

'Figure 6 is a view showing the manner in which the corner of a page isreceived within the slotted portion of an envelope and showing aphotograph or card precisely placed on the sheet with reference to theangularly disposed lines associated with the slotted line.

Figure '7 shows a view presenting a further step in applying the cornermountings to a card or photograph placed as in accordance with Figure 6,two of the mountings onl being shown.

Figure 8 shows all four mountings in position.

Figure 9 shows the manner in which the envelope is placed upon a sheetwith the reverse side outermost and using the flap of the envelope as anupper guide.

1 Figure 10 is a view showing the manner in which the card is mounted onthe page in parallel relation to the upper parallel lines shown inFigure 9.

Figure 11 is .a View showing the manner in which the lines arranged inth form of a cross are used in placing two photographs in symmetricalrelation with respect to the page.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the device in its simplest formcontaining certain advantages may be provided as a simple sheet,

having a foldable flap along one of its edges, preferably the shorter,or it may be provided as an envelope which isits preferable form andwhich is shown as of such construction in the drawings. In any event,the mounting guide being a sheet or an envelope is provided on itsobverse and reverse faces with different parallelly disposed guidelines.

In the form shown in the drawings, there is provided the envelope 2 ofgenerally rectangular outline and provided at its upper shorter edgewith a foldable, preferable sealing flap 4 which folds along the line 6parallel to the bottom line B and at right angles to the opposedlongitudinal edge lines If] and I2. velope is preferably shown in Figure3 as comprising a series of vertical lines and horizontal lines arrangedin the form of a cross and at right angles to each other and disposedsymmetrically, centrally of the obverse face of the envelope. Thevertical lines are shown at l4, l6, I8, and 22, and the horizontal linesare shown at 24, 2'6, 28, 3D and 32, Only the central vertical line Itpasses uninterruptedly from top to bottom of the cruciform figure andonly the .cen-

tral horizontal line 28 extends from edge to edge of the obverse face.All the other lines join at right angles with their correspondingadjacent horizontal lines. The upper vertical line portions mayterminate short of the top as shown in Figure I where the flap comesdown or this bare place may be used for advertising.

The reverse face of the envelope shown in Figure 2 is provided with aseries of uniformly spaced horizontal lines 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, M, 6, 48and 50, which extend parallel to the top line This face of the en- 6 ofthe envelope. The lower portion of this reverse face of the envelopeform a square, that is, with the distances 52, 54 on the edges Ill andi2 equal to the length of the bottom edge 8, and this square zone isprovided with a dotted diagonal line 56 which is adapted to be slittedas shown in Figure 5 for purposes as will be hereinafter apparent, andeither one or both sides of the square on either side of this diagonalline is provided with ruled guide lines which are uniformly spaced apartand which comprise right angled portions extending parallel to the edgesIQ and I 2 and to the edge 8. The vertical portions of these lines are58, 60, E2 and 64 and the horizontal lines of these portions are 66, 68,10, 72 and 14. These horizontal vertical lines meet along a junctionalline 16 which extends at right angles to the dotted line 56 and meetsthe corner of the bottom edge 3 and the side edge Ill. By means of thisconstruction and arrangement of the lines on the obverse face as shownin Figure 2, and by folding the flap 4 in either direction, such asshown in Figure 3, or in the re verse direction, this envelope may beused in a plurality of positions on the sheet to provide base orreference lines parallel with preselected marginal lines of the sheetor'page of the album or any sheet or page of rectangular shapeiand bywhich a card or sheet or photograph maybe precisely positioned on thesheet of the album or other sheet or page in the manner shownin thedrawings.

In addition, by the utilization of the slotted line and its associatedangularly disposed lines as shown in Figure 2, the corner of the page orsheet may be inserted in the dotted line and then the card or photographor other rectangular sheet of paper may be placed as shown in Figure 6with its parallel corner lines parallel to one of the selected cornerlines on the reverse face as shown in Figure 2, whereby to position thecard or 'photograph as shown in Figures '7 and& Thecor'ner mountings,one of which is shown in Figure 4, may then be adhered to the page orsheet whereby to hold the card or photograph or the like in permanentposition on the album or whereby the photograph may be detachedtherefrom and replaced as desired, at the same time securing a precisemounting with its edges in parallelism with the edges of the page.Figure 9 shows the manner in which the reverse face of the envelope ispositioned outwardly, the flap being folded over the edge of the pageand the photograph being positioned with respect to the parallel upperlines of Figure 2, and Figure 11 shows the manner in which twophotographs may besynzmetrically placed on a page by reference to thecruciform arrangement of lines shown in Figure 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Pat cut is: a i

1. An envelope of the character described of generally rectangular shapeand, having a foldable flap adapted to close the envelope, one of thefaces of the envelope being provided with uniformly spaced apartparallel lines disposed parallel to the line .of'fold of the flap andanother corner lines of the envelope, said diagonal line beingconstructed and arranged to be slitted to provide an opening in theenvelope to receive the corner of a page or sheet whereby said rightangularly disposed parallel lines may be used as guide reference linesfor the positioning of a rectangular card or photograph or sheet withreference to the page or sheet to be inserted in said slit formed bysaid dotted line.

2. An envelope of rectangular shape having a foldable flap along itsshorter upper margin, one of the faces of the envelope being providedwith a cruciform centrally disposed figure composed of uniformly spacedapart lines disposed in parallelism and at right angles the one to theother, and the opposite or reverse face of the envelope at one portionthereof being provided with uniformly spaced lines parallel to the foldline of the flap and another portion of said face of the envelope beinof square dimensions, one side of which is the shorter edge of theenvelope, said square portion being provided with a dotted diagonal lineadapted to be slitted and provided with associated uniformly spacedparallel lines arranged at right angles to each other, certain of saidlines being parallel with the bottom edge of the envelope and the otherlines being parallel with the longitudinal side edge of the envelope.

3. An envelope of rectangular shape having a foldable flap at one endand adapted to form a package containing mounting corners for themounting of photographs, cards and the like in albums and sheets, saidenvelope being provided on at least one of its faces with spaced orruled lines extending parallel with each of the marginal lines of theenvelope to provide guide reference lines for the placing of aphotograph with reference to a page, one of the faces of the envelopebeing provided with a. diagonal line extending diagonally with respectto two right angularly disposed edge lines of the envelope and whichdiagonal line is adapted to be slitted to receive the corner of arectangular page Or sheet upon which the cards or photographs are to bemounted.

4. A device of rectangular shape adapted to form a guide for themounting of photographs, cards and the like in albums and sheets, saiddevice being provided on at least one of its faces with spaced or ruledlines extending parallel with each of the marginal lines of the deviceto provide guide reference lines for the placing of a photograph withreference to a page, one of the faces of the device being provided witha diagonal line extending diagonally with respect to two right angularlydisposed edge lines of the envelope and which diagonal line is adaptedto be slitted to receive the corner of a rectangular page or sheet uponwhich the cards or photographs are to be mounted.

CORINNE M. MURRAY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 397,475 Tifiany Feb. 5, 18891,810,806 Wilson June 16, 1931 1,562,504 Jackson Nov. 24, 1925

